The Sun. — London, England, 1838-10-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The subject of Canada ought to be tabooed to the Times. To readers of all parties its continuing to discuss Canadian affairs, and more particularly to utter a single opinion on the conduct of Lord Durham, must appear in the light of an insult. A Journal that scatters all sorts of extreme opi nions, without the slightest regard to principle or consis tency, brings the odium it has justly incurred to the cause it has disgraced by its advocacy. Even a pious sentiment in the mouth of Mother Cole becomes inexpressively revolt ing. But the truth is, that the Tories have so disgraced themselves by their conduct with regard to Canada last Session, that a more reputable advocacy could not benefit them. If anything could have been done for them, the Standard would net assuredly have consigned all of them, with the single exception of Sir Robert Peel—the manly Sir Robert—to the reprobation they so richly merit But the Standard would not throw away its logic in defending conduct which violated the recognised constitutional principle that the authority of men in high situations of trust ought not to be diminished by interference of the Legislature, and that, in order to pre vent them from thinking themselves free of their responsi bility, due confidence ought to be reposed in them, or dis approbation with their Administration fairly and openly urged. But besides, as the Standard has ably demonstra ted, the whole of the objections of the Tories resolved themselves into an inability to comprehend the distinctions between a Legislature and an ordinary tribunal, and in what character Lord Durham issued his ordinances. It becomes necessary, for the sake of the good government of the country in future, that the flagrant departure of the Tories from the ways of the constitution should be held up to general reprobation, that a practice which would cut up responsibility by the roots, and invest the House of Lords with executive functions, may not be suffered to grow into a precedent. The House of Lords cannot administer Canada or India, or any of our distant possessions, and it is not entitled to sit in judgment on each separate act of those who do administer them. It used to be ' said that the losses of the Austrian Generals in Italy, during the war of the French revolution, were attributable to the folly of the Aulic Council of Vienna, which traced out a plan of campaign, w hi c h th e Gener als were in no case to depart from without leave. But the folly of making the Governor of the North American Colonies the mere puppet of the House of Lords, who are to have the direc tion of all his movements, is not less than that of fighting Italian battles in Vienna. It is in some sort an apology for Ministers that a Tory majority in the House of Lords coerced them into the course they ultimately pursued, but there 'can be no apology for the Tory majority. We are told, indeed, by the Times, that the Conservative States men, having laid before them by those professional autho rities in whom they most justly confided a case of clear and broad unlawfulness in a public functionary of the highest rank, could do no otherwise than act upon such authorities, and would assuredly have been far from justified in scrutinizing the motives of Lord Brougham, and voting in defiance of what they were informed was the law, because he with whom the inquiry originated had projects to help forward, and passions to indulge, which were shared in by no Conserva tive." This defence, which supposes an inability on the part of the Conservatives to have an opinion of their own, does not redound very much to their reputation. The time was when the opinion of lawyers in either House of Par liament on constitutional questions were held in much less account. Had Sir William Follett or Lord Lyndhurst given vent to their legal trifling in presence of Burke or Fox, these great men would soon have reduced them to their proper dimensions. But let us give the Devil his due. Lord Brougham was the cleverest of the opponents of Lord Durham in the House of Lords ; but the animus dis played by Lords Ellenborough, Lyndhurst, and other Tory Peers, sufficiently evinced that talents of a very inferior order would have been sufficient to seduce them into the course they pursued. Indeed, Lord Ellenborough may almost lay claim to having displayed, in the debates previous to those on the ordinances, as much eagerness to destroy the authority and influence of Lord Durham in Canada as was displayed by the Noble and Learned Lord whom the Tories now wish to burden with their iniquity in adli tion to his own. Lord Brougham's motives ought to have been appreciated ; and the Tories ought not to have blindly followed his guidance. As English gentlemen it might have been expected of them that they would not dishonour themselves by waging a pitiful war against a public func tionary to whom a high trust was confided, because an enemy of that functionary hallooed them, and two or three pedantic lawyers abetted him. The Times may strive to show that they were lawyer-ridden ; but to establish their imbecility is not giving them the best title to preside over the affairs of this great empire. Even the Standard, with all its new-born enthusiasm for Sir Robert Peel, would find it a hard task to dispose the country to place con fidence in those whom it has so successfully proved to be incapables, but without whom Sir Robert could not carry on an Administration.—Morning Chronicle. As desperate circumstances require desperate undertak ings, we have been amused within this day or two by cer tain vehement but wofully unprofitable shifts resorted to on the part of some of our Contemporaries, for the extrication of one of their political allies from an awkward position in which he has contrived to place himself. It became our duty, on Tuesday last, to bring under public notice a pro ceeding, the indecency of which was the least reprehensible portion of it, so far as regarded the greater number of the actors, but of which the wickedness was much aggravated by the indecency in the case of that particular individual on whom it was our painful office more especially and pointedly to animadvert. The subject we allude to is the meeting summoned by the sheriff of the county of Meath, in Ire land, to petition for an " utter extinction" of tithes in name and substance, including necessarily the aboli tion of that rent-charge into which the ancient pay ment of tithe has been commuted nithin the last six months, and which constitutes at this hour the only legal fund for the maintenance of the Protestant Established Clergy. To the requisition for the above meeting with such an avowed and audacious object the first name signed was that of " Headfort ;" and the Marquis of Headfort was therefore called to the bar of public reprobation by the Times with something of the same homely spirit of un shrinking freedom in the cause of truth as we have fre quently before exhibited towards culprits more distin pished than Lord Headfort, and in all respects his bet ters. We affirmed and demonstrated that the purpose for which Lord Headfort signed the requisition was one of which he could in no manner aid the accomplishment, without committing the grossest outrage upon his Sove reign, and the most heinous perjury in the face of Al mighty God. We affirmed and demonstrated that Lord Headfort, as a sworn Privy Councillor, a sworn Lord- Lieutenant of a county, and a Lord of her Majesty's im mediate household, by joining, and indeed leading, a pe tition to the Queen for the entire abolition of the Church Establishment, was not merely violating his own solemn oath, but importuning his Sovereign to break her coronation oath, so recently sworn in the presence of her assembled subjects. For the preliminary offence perpetrated by Lord Headfort, by affixing his signature to the public advertise ment of such a project, we expressed the opinion prevailing amongst all honest Protestants, that it was the bounden duty of the Queen's advisers to dismiss the aforesaid Mar quis from every office held by him at the pleasure of the Crown. We persist b that opinion with more earnestness, if possible, than ever. It is one against which no shade or colour of argument can be adduced. A Morning Paper which does, par excellence, the scavenger's work of Down ing -street, Pimlico, and Windsor Castle, for him who is at the same time First Lord of the Treasury and exclusive Mayor of the Palace—for him who seems to have monopo lized in his own person all the powers of the State, and functions of the Royal Household—the Journal in question has, we say, attempted, however faintly, a defence of Lord Headfort, whose dismissal from the service it no doubt fears, as the inevitabl e p re l u d e to that of many other placemen ' . Every one will have already guessed that an excuse for crime in such a quarter cannot be deficient in folly any more than knavery. To give an example, therefore, of both attributes, we have to state, that the Trea sury vassal affects to understand our condemnation of Lord Headfort's offence as an attack upon the right of petition— " the most sacred right of a British subject :" that he asks us to " tell him what Act upon the Statute-book it is not competent to any subject of this realm to petition the Le gislature for the repeal of, or what existing institution any British citizen (Lord or Commoner, Englishman or Irish man) may not lawfully, rightfully, and conslilutionall y, call upon Parliament to modify, reform, or re-construct ?" and again, " this assault upon a Noble Marquis for merely sub scribing a requisition for a meeting to petition Parliament" (he forgets to say for what) "is made by the leading Journal of the party which would fain have itself con sidered the great bulwark of British law and free dom." And so the Conservative party " would fain be considered," and let us tell the sneaking equivo cator, so the Conservative party is considered by all who value either law or freedom, as the great— nay, at thi s critical period of our history , the only bul wark of the m b o th. Th e whole passage that we have quoted abov e i s one ti ssue o f fallacy and falsehood. It confounds the " right of petition" with the flagitious abuse of that sac re d righ t; and it fraudulently mixes up an d incorporates an exemption from the penalties of the law with a title to the especial grace and favour of the Sove reign. The Times did not assault Lord Headfort for merely " subscribing to a requisition" for a meeting to " petition Parliament," that is palpably untrue, and it was an untruth which did not and could not have escaped the attention of the person who indited it. It was not for any exercise of the right of petition, but for the indefensible nature of the object which the requisition signed by Lord Headfort was intended to Komote. Wh en v‘e are asked 0 what existing institution any British subject may not lawfully, rightfully, and constitutionally call upon Parliament to re-construct, or what Act upon the statute-book such British subject is not competent to petition the repeal of," our answer is—" The Act of Settlement," passed for Protestant purposes, and vesting the Crown of England in the Protestant House of Brunswick, is one which he who petitions against may not be hanged or transported or sent to the treadmill for doing so, but will any honest man allege, that although such a petition may be " lawful," the name of any British subject can be " rightfully or constitutionally" subscribed to such a petition ? Will any man say that a British subject ca pable of signing such a petition could be " rightfully or constitutionally" appointed a Lord of the Bedchamber, or continued in that honourable office about the Sovereign, after having so subscribed his name ? Suppose a petition addressed to Parliament to abolish the House of Com mons : a British subject might, we believe, " lawfully" subscribe his name to that petition, whether the House were to receive the petition or not ; but if signed by any Member of the House of Commons, is it credible that the House would, on the resignation of an existing Speaker, elect such a petitioning " British subject" to succeed him ? Suppose a petition calling upon her Ma jesty to abdicate her Imperial Crown : we do not know that such a petition would be unlawful—that is to say, punishable by any criminal proceeding. But would it be a " rightful or constitutional" exercise of the privilege of petition ? Could the " British subject," whether Lord or Commoner, who betrayed such a feeling towards the Queen and Monarchy of - England, be granted a mark of Royal favour, or be suffered to retain in his possession such a mark of favour, without an abuse of the Queen's " un doubted prerogative" so criminal and monstrous as to in sure the impeachment of the profligate Minister who so perverted the powers intrusted to the Crown ? Suppose, again, a petition to the Queen praying that she would be graciously pleased to perjure herself, by destroying the Pro testant Church Establishment of the United Kingdom. It may be our opinion, it is certainly Lord Headfort's, that such a petition does not render those who subscribe it amenable to punishment as felons. But is it not a consti tutional question to ask whether such petitioners are sub jects who ought to be promoted by the Queen, or retained in her Majesty's service, undisturbed by a single re buke, unbranded by any demonstration of the Royal displeasure ? We, for our parts, with all devoted and loyal attachment to the Crown, conceive the Church to be an institution more sacred and vital to this Protestant Monarchy than the Crown itself. The Crown depends upon the Protestant Church by law. The Crown is inseparable from it, and cannot exist without it. The Coronation Oath and the Act of Settlement, in which it originates, make the abandonment of Protestantism a forfeiture of the Crown. Once more, then, the attempt of Lord Headfort to pervert the right of petition into an instrument for the abolition of that Church with vl hich the Crown of England has been indissolubly and for ever by the fundamental laws of the British Monarchy united, affords proof of such " a wrongful, unconstitutional," animus in the projector, that although he may not be punishable by any process of law, he ought unquestionably not to be held up, and countenanced, and patronized as a sample of the description of British subjects whom her Majesty, under the advice of her Prime Minister, deems best entitled to enjoy those honours of which she is by law the dispenser, and those emoluments whose saurce is in the revenues of the State. The question being one of duty in the counsellors of the Crown, we affirm once more, that the man who has so abused the ri g ht of petition as Lord Headfort in his assault upon the Protestant Church, cannot, without infamous abuse of th e prerogative and for the most corrupt ends of faction, be continued in the enjoyment of favours and distinctions, of which the Royal will was made the fountain tor the sake of s trengthening the institutions of the monarchy, not of overwhelming them with ruin. We have designedly omitted all reference whatever to the rapacious writ of Church robbery for the indulgence of a greedy and brutal selfishness, which alone could move an Irish landlord, calling himself a Protestant, to relieve his estate from the rent-charge allotted to the Clergy—because it was our desire to present distinctly to the eyes of Lord Melbourne once, alas! regarded as a supporter of the Church, the constitutional character of this execrable proct ding, as being that upon which there could not be (while upon mo tives there might be) any reasonable difference of judg ment ; and we now ask Lord Melbourne, when Colonel Verner was deprived of his office for a toast which no law upon the statue-book could possibly have strained into a misdemeanour, whether he, Lord Melbourne, will be cor rupt enough to sanction the sophistry of his newspaper tool, or to assert that because Lord Headfort may not be amen able to law, he ought therefore to be marked out and cherished and distinguished for a daring and unconstitu tional act, by the unchanged enjoyment of his Sovereign's especial favour.—Tim es. The civic election movements have commenced in Edinburgh. WATER WELL DIRECTED BY A TEETOTALLER. —On Monday evening, about eight o'clock, an elderly lady. apparently in great di s t ress o f m i n d, was cry i ng " Fi re, fire !" at the door of Mr. Mann, surgeon, Bartholemew Close. On entering the house it was found that a room on the second floor was on fire, to all appearance threatening destruction to the whole house; but by the persevering application of a man named Crew, in the employment of Messrs. Rippon and Co., buckets of water, under the direction of Mr. Giles, one of the officers of the East London Water Works, who handed the water to Crew, were used one after another with such success, that the fire was soon got under. As soon as this was effected the teetotaller, for such Mr. Giles proved to be, went to see after the ladies, and to assure them that all was safe. They asked him what he would have to take after his exertions and services. lie replied that he was a teetotaller, and had satis faction within himself 41ready. To prevent his taking cold, he added that he always used the same fl u id as b e v er age with which he had. then been wetted externally, and which he be lieved was the surest preventive to taking cold. The parties separated, well satisfied. If the teetotallers do not partake of the salamander, or fire-king qualification, it is evident that in cases of emergency they are not deficient in courage or coolness to direct their energies with skill and success. On Sunday night a person of the name of C onnor, while accompanying his sister home, was attacked by three individuals, at a place called Botnay, near Maryhill, when a scuffle ensued, and he was struck on the head with some heavy weapon, and so severely injured that he died during the night. A lad of the name of Walls, a shoemaker, has been apprehended by the police, and transmitted to the sheriff for examination, as to the murder of Connor. It appears from information which has been obtained, that the weapon by which the fatal blow was struck was what is commonly called a " skull-cracker." The person who used this weapon is said to be the prisoner Walls.— Glasgow Chronicle. A very lengthened inquiry took place on Wednes day at Deptford, touching the death of a youth named Mel ville. It appeared that a few days ago some of his fellow-ap prentices had been " larking," when one of them was shoved against him and both fell, deceased being undermost. He complained of pains in the loins on being raised up, and at night became worse. He died on Monday last. A post mortern examination of the body showed that Melville had previously been labouring under a disease of the lungs, which would pro bably have proved fatal at no distant period ; but the surgeon thought that death might have been accelerated by the fall. The jury returned a verdict of—Accidental death, acquitting the lad who fell upon deceased of all malicious intention to. wards him. The Coroner cautioned the deceased's comrades agains; " larking." The Dumjries Courier of last Tuesday has a three columned account of a dinner and ball given to commemorat g. e the majority of Wellwood M axwe ll , E sq., jun., Atin " In the evening" (says the Courier) the whole villagelnf scot. neighbouring h e i g ht s — not the balefires that blaze d beattie was brilli an tly illuminated ' • fires, too, blazed ze d i _ frn " the om the days o f we i r ," b ut b eacons betokenin g gra m peace. Th e very poorest cottagerz had windows, w h et h er feuars on the estate of un sties or other tnue, affection, candles in their wise, and it was easy to read i n so many demonstrationsh the reco gn i t i on of acts which many a time an d oftave made the heart o f the widow and orphan sing for joy. Alo lone woman in a li tt l e cottage had only a single candle; but still it it was very c h eer f ully displayed ; and one of the speakers at th dinner remarked, that an exhibition so endearing reminded him of two things —she who, out of her little., gave more than others did out of their much ; and, secondly, of the London cobbler who placed a farthing candle in his window at the illu mination in honour of the battle of Trafalgar, and wrote under it— ' Nelson, tho' dead, lives in each British heart, Hear that and tremble Master Bonaparte.' All and sundry were exceedingly anxious to honour suitably so interesting an occasion ; and many a wish was expressed that Mr. Maxwell, sen., might long be spared to enjoy the esteem and friendship of the thriving community around, and that when he is gone, his representative, as he bids fair to do, may walk in his footsteps, and profit by the bright example so long and undeviatingly set him." On Wednesday afternoon an inquest was held at St. Olave's workhouse, Southwark, on view of the body of James Wilkinson, aged 38 years. It appeared from the evi dence, that the deceased was a seaman, belonging to the Ema nuel, which trades between York and London. On Sunday last he obtained leave of the Captain to go and see his cousin, who resides in Salisbury street, Lisson-grove, with whom he spent the day, being then apparently in good health. He re turned to the vessel shortly before eight o'clock on Monday, and immediately afterwards complained of being very ill. Mr. Clarke, a surgeon, living in Dean-street, Southwark, was sent for, who promptly attended, but the unfortunate man expired just expired before the surgeon reached the vessel. Verdict-- Died by the visitation of God. The deceased, who was a re markably fine man, has left a widow and two children totally unprovided for. THE NORTHERN YACHT STEANIER, NO Ih telligence has yet been o bt a i ne d of this, we fear, ill-fated vessel ; and in the absence of any inform at i on regarding her, the too probable conjecture is, that the bark must have gone down, and that her passengers and crew hare a ll per i shed um heard azd unscen Adver ti,str of Tuesday last. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1838. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, OCT. 25.—A Congregation was this day holden for granting Degrees, &e., when the following were con ferred:— Masters of Arts.—J. W. Weare, of Christ Church ; Rev. W. Green, of Lincoln College ; Rev. H. Mackenzie, of Pembroke College ; Rev. J. Farquhar, of Jesus College ; Rev. R. Maynard, of Wadham College; Rev. W. Maskell, of University College. Bachelors of Arts.—Frederick Stephens, of Exeter Col lege; J. Day Collis, of Worcester College; T. H. Baylis, of Brazennose College ; J. Slatter, of Lincoln College ; J. Edwards, of Lincoln College. The Professor of Chemistry has announced a Course of Lectures on that Science to begin on Tuesday, the 30th inst., at eight o'clock in the evening, and to coutinuc on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday evenings. The Regius Professor of Medicine has issued a notice of his delivering a Course of Lectu. es on Anatomy to commence on Monday, the 29th inst., at two o'chck. OPENING OF THE NORTH UNION RAILWAY. This Railway, intended as a continuation of the Grand Junction line from London, and as a direct line from Man chester and Liverpool to Preston, was opened from end to end on Monday last. Shortly after eight o'clock, Hardman Earle, Esq., Jo seph Hornby, Esq., Theodore Rathbone, Esq., William Taylor, Esq. (the Chairman of the Preston Committee), and several Shareholders in the Company, started in an open carriage, propelled by their No. 2 engine, manufac tured by Messrs. Jones, Turner, and Evans, of the Via duct Foundry, Newton, from Parkside, the place celebrated in railway history as the spot at which the late Mr. Huskis son met his death. The entire line from Parkside to Preston measures twenty two miles and a half ; the first two miles and a quarter is up a slight incline and a curve ; next comes four miles of dead level, and perfectly straight. A steep incline rising at the rate of one in a hundred, brings the traveller to the town of Wigan, the Company's first station on the line. Here a splendid station-house has been erected, alike well adapted for the transaction of the Company's business and general public accommodation. The line is carried, by means of an iron bridge, supported by massive pillars of the Doric order, across the turnpike-road leading into IVigan. This commences the Douglas contract, undertaken by Messrs. Mallens and M'Mayor, which extends five miles along the line to Coppull, through some exceedingly heavy embank ments, and cuttings in some places full sixty feet deep. In this distance there are two inclined planes, the highest rising in the ratio of one in a hundred. Coppull forms the summit, and here commences the Yarrow contract, which is carried across one of the most beautiful valleys in Eng land. From Coppull to Yarrow there are three incline planes, two short ones, and the third extending to more than a mile in length, and formed by embankments raised in places more than sixty feet above the natural level. The chief alteration in this line is the wooden bridge across the river Yarrow. It will be recollected by those conversant with railroad affairs, that a culvert of con siderable extent had been formed across the river, and the embankment placed upon it. The floods of last November caused tin river to overflow so considerably as to blow up the arches and to carry away the embankment to a very consi derable extent. The loss to the contractor was estimated at nearly 6,0001. In the place of this culvert and embank ment a bridge, made of frame-work, has been erected. It is 73 feet above the bed of the river, 400 feet long, a•-.d 32 feet wide ; and in its construction more than 30,000 feet of timber was used. The prospect is truly beautiful. On the hill stands Gillibrand-hall, the seat of Mr. Fan kerly, and Chorley Church, and in the distance Itirington Pike, or Hill, known as a land-mark for inward-hound ships on approaching the port of Liverpool. There are two more inclines between the Yarrow-bridge and Pres ton, one at Leyland, the other at Farrington ; and imme diately previous to reachin Preston there is a deep excxya tion, forty-one feet cutting. The bridge over the river Ribble is a fine specimen of architecture, erected by Messrs. Mullen and Co., at the cost of 40,0001. It is composed of five elliptic arches, of 150 feet span, and 33 feet rise. The stone of which it is constructed was raised from quarries at Lancaster and Whittle, anti is called " Mulstone Grit"—a very durable material. The span of the arches are the same as those of Waterloo B r idge, London. At this place the engine was stopped, and the Directors there terminated their trip. The distance from end to end was performed in 43 minutes. After taking breakfast in Preston, the Directors returned to the Yarrow-bridge, where a thorough inspection took place. The engine was made to pass over the bridge several times at a very rapid rate, the vibration was scarcely perceptible, and sonic of the company expressed to Mr. Mackenzie, the contractor, who was present, their approval of the manner in which this arduous task had been completed. The Directors, in their trip, were preceded by the No. 5 engine, built by Messrs. Hicks, of Bolton, which, with Messrs. Jones and Co.'s engine, worked admirably. The Directory, on their return, arrived at Parkside at 20 minutes past one o'clock. The line, it is expected, will be open to the public on Wednesday week. The mails are not expected to run upon it prior to the 9th of next moAh. —Liverpool Courier. Thomas Barrett Leonard, Esq., of Rottingdean, Joseph Montcfiore, Esq., of Worth Park, and David Salo mons, Esq., of Broome Hill, Tunbridge Wells, who have lately been added to the commission of the peace for this county, took the oaths of qualification at the Lewes Sessions. This is the first instance, we believe, of Jews being put into the commission of the peace.—Brighton Gazette. A venerable female thief and swindler, named Ma dame Gauls, who is in the 77th year of her age, and during ber long career has been an inmate of almost all the prisons in the kingdom, was on Friday brought before the Tribunal of Correctional Police, for obtaining support and money from two silly men, by representing herself as a relation of theirs, arrived from America after an absence of fifty years, promis ing to one 2CO 000 f. at her death and to the other an imme diate gift of 28,000 f., which she was expecting by the dili gence. While on her way with him to the coach-office, un der pretence of bringing away the money, she contrived to slip out of his hands, and was no more seen until in those of the police. In consideration of her repeated offences, she was condemned to ten years' imprisonment, and to remain for ten years afterwards under the surveillance of the police.—Galig nani's Messenger. Tuesday evening, about six o'clock, much conster nation was created in St. James's Park in consequence of a bull in an infuriated state having escaped from its owners at Buckingham -gate, and passing through the Park. When it arrived opposite the Wellington Barracks, the animal attacked a lady, named Barker, and tore off her shawl. A female ser vant, in charge of two children, was knocked down, but the children luckily escaped without injury. The animal then con tinued its course until it came closely in contact with the sen tries stationed in front of the Horse Guards. Private Benton, of the 3d battalion Grenadier Guards, confronted the animal with his bayonet, but the concussion was so violent that, although the bayonet penetrated the chest, it was forced from the musket, and the stock of the gun was shivered to pieces At the same time the soldier received a severe wound on the head, and was taken to the hospital. After running upwards of thi rty yar d s the an i mal fell with great. vio'ence against t , le railings of the enclosure, and died in a a short time from the effect of the bayonet wound. An inquest was held On Tuesday at St. Dunstan's bill, City, on the body of an infant named Piercy, whose mo ther had administered to it a teaspoonful of oil of vitriol, in mistake for some medicine. The two phials had been placed near each other on a shelf, neither being labelled. The child died in great agony about eight hours after the occurrence. The Coroner sent for the chemist at whose shop the articles had been purchased, and censured him severely for neglecting to put a label on the phial containing the poison. Verdict—Ac cidental death. The peaceful and beautiful village of Pangbourn has been of late subjected to every species of annoyance by the riotous and disgraceful conduct of the labourers employed on the railway in and near that place. The Church-yard has been more than once desecrated by fights and riots, until at length the civil power was completely set at defiance, and pri soners rescued from custody by their companions. The Ma gistrates have now received from the Home Office effectual assistance in the presence of a small police force, since which a degree of quiet has been restored, to which the village has long been a stranger. Still they have not been able to pre. vent numerous robberies of gardens, orchards, and fowl-houses in the neighbourhood. On Tuesday night last ten fowls were stolen from Flower's farm, we presume in gratitude to the worthy occupier for his permission to the railway men to sleep on the premises. A reward of 21 has been offered for the discovery of the offenders. —Berkshire Chronicle. An inquest was held at Charing-cross H os pi ta l It appeared M de a c r e y ase a d n w e' as ag ad ed mi B tted on th e 1 1t h f y r e o s m t e the r d a yevidence body that t o h f e inst., suffering from severe injuries she had received by acci dentally falling down stairs. From her advanced age no hopes were entertained of her recovery. She gradually sank, and expired on Monday evening last. Verdict_" Accidental death." Yesterday information was received by the police that the parish church of Alderton, Gloucestershire, was broken open on Sunday night, and a plain silver sacramental cup, with a lid, a pewter plate, and a pewter flagon, stolen therefrom. The cup was not marked. A reward has been offered for the apprehension of the thief. COLOSSAL COLUMN.—The mountain called " Co. niston Old Man," which forms so striking an o bj ect i n our lake scenery, is on the eve of being rendered still more con spicuous by the erection of a column upon the s umm i t o f nearly one hundred feet high. The mining comp any , i t i s said, intend to erect this tower at their sole cost. —Cumber land Pogue'. We learn from the Ayr Observer that the weather has been rather unfavourable for harvest operations during , the last week. A considerable portion of the ()fit crop still remains eut i 4 the higher districts of tho county, , MADEIRA WINE. (From the Times.) The Annexed letter is written by an intelligent wine-mer chant of long standing in the City. It is but just th4t all the benefit to be derived from its publication should, in such a case, be given to the Madeira merchants : " TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMER. " Sir—Some months since I read in the City Article of your journal a statement that spurious wines were imported from France into the island of Madeira, lodged in the entre pots, branded with the Madeira brands, and exported to the United States as the genuine vint:ige of that island. " At the time I thought it might be the production of some party inimical to the administrat:T of the Custom-house at Funchal, who certainly has never been remarkable for courtesy, urbanity, or manners, for which reason I expected the subject would die a natural death, but I observe that you make further reference to it in your City article of the 11th instant, reite rating your conviction that this practice prevails in the port of Funchal. " R ference to any book descriptive of the island of Madeira will show you that the city of Funchal commands such a per t', ct and minute view of the beach and shipping, that it would scarcely be possible to land a bottle of wine without its being known to the large proportion of the residents, whose chief occupation it is to continually overlook and take notice of every trifling detail that occurs in the shipping department of the somewhat quiet port of Funchal, where the merchandise re quiring to be lodged in entrepot fer export is so limited that the entry of any such article, and in the quantities alluded to by your informant, could not be made without its being gene rally known. " The high and oppressive duties on British manufactures may have caused smuggling to have been carried on, and gua ranteed it in the eyes of the community ; but that there should be smuggling of goods into the Government stores, contrary to the fiscal regulations, contrary to the interests of the entire mercantile community, and contrary to the interests and pre judices of the whole population of Madeira, where almost every boatman is a vine cultivator, is as much at variance with pro bability as I believe your informant's statement to be adverse to fact. " The only known attempt surreptitiously to introduce wine into Madeira was seven pipes from the Azores, which were seized, publicly destroyed, and the parties implicated banished to the condemned settlements on the coast of Africa. " The assumption on the part of the Funchal merchants, that you were influenced by 'sinister views,' is scarcely in ac cordance with the general estimation in which your journal is held in the island of Madeira, where it is much read and highly popular, on account of its acknowledged talent and generally correct information. " Permit me to hope that you will do justice to Madeira by relieving the commerce of that island from an imputation that could not be otherwise than prejudicial to its staple commodity of traffic. " Your very obedient servant, " New Broad-street, Oct. 22 a D. LAW INTELLIGENCE. SHERIFFS' COURT. RED LION-SQUARN.-TIILIRSDA r, HOLLYWELL V. RICHARDSON. In this case the plaintiff was stated to be a confectioner, re siding in Great Russell -street, and the defendant an oil and Italian warehouseman in the neighbourhood of Covent-garden. The action was brought to recover 701. for money lent at two different periods in 1836—a promissory note upon a Is. 6d. receipt stamp was given for 601., and interest upon that sum was sought to he obtained. It was proved by Ann Styles, a servant of the plaintiff, that the defendant on several occasions had admitted being indebted to the plaintiff, but had pleaded his inability from time to time to pay the amount. The Under- Sheriff, in summing up, directed the Jury to return a verdict for the plaintiff for 701., which they accordingly did. CRIMINAL COURT-THURSDAY. OLD COURT. John Neinninger, a German, was found Guilty of stabbing a female, named Susannah Tee, with a knife. The circum stances under which the wound was inflicted were shortly as follows :—The prisoner went borne with the female, and a quarrel arising about money, the prisoner attempted to get out: The female refused to allow him to do so. He then seized a knife, and struck her with it violently. Robert John Searle was found guilty of wilfully stabbing with a knife Charles Davey. Henry Barlett, aged 23, a sailor, was indicted for felo niously stabbing and wounding William Harris, with intent to do him some gri, vous bodily harm upon the high seas. The prosecutor, a man of colour, was a cook on board the David Clark, and on the 17th of last September, as the ship was off the Land's End, Cornwall, the prisoner came up to him at dinner time, and wanted to be served with the meat for his mess. The cook declined to do so until he had served mess No. 1, which he was then attending to. The result was that bad language was used by both parties, and in the end the prisoner seized his knife and cut the cook across the fingers, and afterwards the prisoner ran his knife throul-h the cook's arm. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. Sentence, one year's imprisonment in the Penitentiary. NEW COURT. Thomas Moore, a respectable looking young man, was in dicted for stealing a watch and appendages from the person of a man of colour, Salvador Todd. The value was laid at 6/. 103. The parties are both seafaring men, and on the day on which the robbery was committed, they had been drinking together at several public houses in and about Shadwell. When they were passing a dark passage the prisoner snatched the watch from his pocket. He was quite certain that the prisoner was the person who took it. The CONIMON SERGEANT summed up, and the prisoner was found Guilty. Sentenced to ten years' transportation. Richard Mason and William Wilmot were convicted on very clear evidence of stealing a handkerchief from the person of William Walter Bagalley, Esq. Inquiry was made relative to the prisoners, when the officer of the Court stated that Wil mot was not " known," but Mason had been three mouths in the House of Correction for felony. Mason pertinaciously denied this, but sergeant Bates, of the city police, confirmed the fact stated by Mr. Jonas. Mason with great effrontery gave the policeman the lie, and said he would swear that black was white, and white no colour at all. —( Laughter.) The COURT ordered Mason to be transported for seven years, and Wilmot to three months' imprisonment. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. A man and his wife, named Mainson were placed at the bar before Mr. TWYFORD and Mr. THISLETON, charged on suspicion of unlawfully disposing of posting bills of various kinds, entrusted to the care of the male prisoner to post in dif ferent parts of the metropolis. Paddy Lee, alias Slashing Lee, a coal-shed keeper by trade and bill-sticker by profession, came forward to give the M igistrates a full history of the circumstances connected with the alleged fraud. He commenced—Please your Worship, I am a bill-sticker on a large scale. I have conducted sixteen e lections—(Laughter)—in my time, and am in the habit of employing a good many hands. Your Worship must know that it's impossible for me to stick all the bills myself, and so I am obliged to give them to others ; and if they don't stick 'em, what am I to do your Worship ? I was employed sixteen years ago on the Morning Chronicle. I was employed sixteen years ago on th e Morning* Advertiser. 1 have lately been employed by Mr. John Paul Cobbett for the grand demonstration down at Todmorden—in fact, your Worship, I'm a literary character altogether, and I hope no blemish won't attach to me on ac count of this man's misdoin's. Why, your Worship, I've been employed by Col. Wood to bill the whole county of Middle sex, with fourteen men under me, which ! employed the same as I did this man, and was entrusted by the Colonel with a horse and gig. Why, your Worship, what did Colonel Wood say to me when he found out that any man neglected his duty —neglected to post the bills ? Why, says he, " Lee, kick that man out of the house, and don't let me see no more of him."—( Loud laughter. ) Mr. TwYFORD begged the literary character to stop his ha rangue. It appeared to him that he was an orator as well as a bill-sticker; but he need not say any more. He had ex plained the case fully, and perhaps satisfactorily. It seemed that he was not a bill-sticker of the old-fashioned ki,d, con tenting himself with going slowly round with one pair of legs, and posting the bills with one pair of hands; but, with the spirit of enterprise and love of railway speed which charac terised the present age, he employed a large number of pairs of legs and pars of hands; and if all the legs and all the hands did their duty, Mr. Lee's system w , uld h' a very admirable one. Such, however, was not the case; all men mild not be relied on, and here the principle failed. The Magistrate, inspired probably with the eloquence of the .‘ literary cha racter," was himself within an ace of making a speech; but remembering that the charge could not be sustained against the prisoners at the bar, he recommended Lee to be more particular in selecting good deputies, and ord :red the prisoners to be discharged. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mr. John Escudier, hotel proprietor, of Piccadilly, brought Mr. Marcius Rigg before Mr. CHAMBERS, for the purpose of having him bound over to keep the peace. Mr. Escudier passed Mr. Rigg in the street a few e venings ago, and as some dispute had pr,viously occurred betw ixt t h em be did not take any notice of Mr. Rigg. About two hours after this occurrence he was on bis way to his house in Picca dilly, when he was suddenly stopped by Mr. Rigg, who had apparently been lying in wait for him, and asked in a menacing manner why he had " cut" him. Mr. Rigg made use of yin. lent language, and swore he would send an " ounce of lead" through his head. As he (complainant) feared some personal violence, he wished the defendant to be held to bail. Mr. CHAMBERS —You hear the charge, Mr. Ri gg , w h at have you to say I—Mr. Rigg—l deny it in toto. Mr . Es cudier was at my father's house, and began talking po litics with me. I had much the best of the argument, and at last I brought him to my way of thinking. I charged him with being like Sir Francis Burdett, whose remarkable apostasy Mr. Escudier—There, he is insulting me again. Mr. Rigg— Mr. Escudier s a id to me, " I wi s h y ou h a d S i r " John, I w i s h you had Orley ;" to which I repli e d, Francis's al his sense." Mr. Escudier went away, and soon after this I met him in the street, when he passed me without returning my bow . I saw some ladies to the Kennington omnibus. I went into Jermyn-street, and smoked one, in fact, two cigars, and as I was about to return home I met Mr. Escudier pro miscuously. Mr. Escudier—Premeditately, I assert. Mr. Rigg—Prorniscously, I declare. M y respectability being u nquestionable, as I am the son of Mr. Rigg, of the Army Office, though that's neither here - nor there, I stopped Mr. Escudier for the purpose of demanding that explana tion which one gentleman has a right to demand of another who " cuts" him. Mr. Escudier brandished a stick and said he would break my skull if I accosted him, and then he called the police. Mr. Escudier—l deny having called the police. Mr. Rigg told the affair to his family, and the next morning I saw his mother and sister, who expressed their surprise at not seeing me with a pair of black eyes. Mr. Rigg—You were not sober that evening, you had some thing to drink at my father's house. Mr. Escudier—l was perfectly sober. gin and water at your father's house. Mr. CHAMBERS—Have you no friends who would arrange this matter? A gentleman attempted, but in vain, to reconcile the parties. Mr. Escudier having again expressed his fears of violence, Mr. Chambers held Mr. Rigg to bail. I had one glass o HAI TON-GARDEN. Yesterday Mr. Fielder, master baker, of Brewer's-street, Somers Town, appeared to a summons, to answer the com plaint of Stowell, the informer, Cr having served a 21b. loaf on Sunday morning, the 2I st of October, before nine o'clock, contrary to the Statute. Having heard the case, Mr. BENETT convicted the defen dant in the penalty of 10s. and costs, and regretted that the Act of Parliament would not allow him to mitigate the penalty, or he should be happy to do so. Defendant— Allow me to ask your Worship whether bakers are allowed to manufacture bread en the Sunday? Mr. BENETT—I cannot answer that question. consult with your attorney upon that subject. The defendant paid reluctantly his., the amount of the penalty and costs. Several other master bAers were convi•Ard under similar circumstances, and they reluctantly parted witEt the money. Stowell received his moiety of the penalties and the costs and quitted the office. You olus MARY LEB ONE. A CAT-ASTROPIIE.— Thomas Batch('Nor, a vender of water cresses, appeared before the Magistrates, at the instance of Elizabeth Preston, by whom a warrant had been obtained against him, under the following circumstances : Mr. RAWLINSON (to complainant)—Now. what have you to say against Batcheldor ? Complainant—Your Worship, my husband's a journeyman butcher, and we keep a lot of nice pigs ; as for me I take in washing, and Mr. RAWLINSON—Never mind about that, I want to know what you have brought the defendant here for ? Complainant—A short time ago Sir, one of my pigs being unruly got out of the sty, and made its way into Mister Bat cheldor's kitchen, and I believe broke some of his plates ar,d dishes; in consequence of that he's always coming to my place and kicking up a row at the door. Mr. RAWLINSON—Has he done this very recently? Com plainant-=Yes, Sir, and my pigs are in danger of their lives from him.—( Laughter.) Mr. RAWLINSON—How so? Complainant—Because he swears he'll poison every one of them, and I do think he's in real earnest in what he says. Mr. RAWLINSON (to defendant)—Now let's hear your vcr sion of the matter. Defendant—l will, your Worship ; this good lady here keeps pigs, as she says; but I don't think they ought to be suffered, for all that, to demolish my property and eat me out of house and home. Mr. RAwidssotv —Explain what you mean. Defendant—She's got a great old sow that's half starved, and one day while my wife was ill in bed the animal broke into my room and stole from the cupboard a large piece of bread and meat ; but the worst part of the business is this; my cat was made away with also. Mr. RAWLINSON —By what means? Defendant—The sow killed it Sir, while it was lying quietly down, and ate every bit of it up except the tail, which was left behind.—( Reneged laughter.) Mr. RAwurisoN—What ! ate up the cat ? Well, you have certainly had abundant reason to complain, if all you say is true. Defendant—lt's every bit of it true, and I'll swear to it. The warrant, after several witnessses had been examined touching the affair, was discharged. QUEEN-SQUARE. William Thompson, the driver of the hackney-coach, 908, yesterday appeared on a summons, charging him with ne glecting to deliver within four days a purse, containing four sovereigns, which had been dropped in his carriage. This was an offence of the old Hackey-carriage Act, and drivers neglecting to deliver anything they found within the specified period to the office of the Commissioners of Stamps, were subject, and are so at the present moment, to the pe nalty of 201. After hearing evidence, Mr. GREGORIE considered the case clearly made out, and was inclined to convict in the full penalty of 201. On the intercession of the Solicitor, defendant was con victed in the penalty of 101. and costs We understand the penalty, according to the A , t, will be enforced against the proprietor. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday Mr. John Braeken was placed at the bar before Messrs. GROVE and CODD, charged with having a:saulted two respectable married females. The prisoner was fined 51., or two months' imprisonment in the House of Correction. A PRECOCIOUS THlEF. —Abraham Burrows, about fourteen years of age, was charged with stealing a coat. The evidence was to the effect that he was along with some other boys in the Kingsland-road, when he took the coat from a cab, and handed it to his companions. He was pursued and taken by Sergeant Clarke of the N Division. The prisoner, in answer to Mr. CODD, said that he could have an excellent character from his last situation, which he only left three weeks ago, and where he had been eighteen months. Mr. CODD gave directions to Clarke to go there and ask if any one knew him. Wallen, G 230, said, " I do, your Worship. I have had him for felony." Wallen, being sworn, said that on Good Friday he apprehended him for stealing some lead, when he was sent to the House of Correction for three months, three weeks of which he was to have solitary confinement, and he was to be three times whipped. Mr. Cone—(to the prisoner)—ls that true? Prisoner— Yes. It's all right, but it was not on Good Friday, it was the Friday after. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. By a new arrangement, which it is expected will shortly take place, the London mail will arrive at Hobb's Point, Pembroke Dock, half an hour earlier than at present. This will arise from the coach running over the new line of road between that place and Carmarthen, which shortens the distance, and obviates the difficulties of the tremendous hills of the old route. When the mail is conveyed by the railroad to Maidenhead, &c. (the parts already passable of the Great Western Railroad), the arrival at Hobb's Point will be still two hours earlier.-Lthat is, two hours and a half sooner than it gets there now—viz., half-past ten at night instead of one in the morning.— Cambrian. PENRITH AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.---This proposed line promises to go on under more favourable aus pices than any other yet commenced or projected in the king dom. Nearly, if not all the great landowners in the neigh bourhood, have cordially engaged in it. —Preston Observer. Yesterday evening, shortly before eight o'clock, a lad in the employment of Mr. Davey, a tailor, in Gray's Inn road, vas run over in Cheapside by one of the mail carts, as he was on his way to Billiter.square, where he had been sent by his master with a suit of clothes. The lad's right leg was dreadfully fractured, and he was immediately conveyed to the hospital on a shutter. Some thief in the confusion occa sioned managed to decamp with the bundle with which the lad had been intrusted. Yesterday morning, between ten and eleven o'clock, as Mrs. Bonham, the wife of H. Bonham, Esq., of White Lion-street, Maida-hill, was sitting before the fire in her bedroom, having just recovered from her confinement, her dressing gown caught fire, and she was in a few minutes enveloped in flames. The nurse entered the room at the in stant, and with great presence of mind snatched the counter pane from the bed, and, throwing it over her mistress, succeeding in stifling the fire. The unfortunate lady was, however, burnt in a severe manner. Medical aid was in stantly procured, but from the peculiarly delicate state of her health she is not likely to survive. Yesterday morning, about half-past nine o'clock, a young woman named Ellen Fielder, housemaid in the family of Mr. Burnet, of Compton-street, Brunswick-square, while standing on the top bar of a railing round the back area, cleaning the parlour window, slipped and fell into the area, and sustains t a compound fracture of the right thigh. She was removed in a state of dreadful suffering to St. Bartholo mew's Hospital. Yesterday evening an inquest was held in West minster on the body of Simon Langston, aged 55. About eight or nine days ago the deceased was driving a cart, con taining pigs, down Westminster-bridge ; there was also one going the opposite way, aid the carts came into violent con tact with each other. The deceased was at that time sitting on the shafts, and his horse started off, when he fell under the wheel of his own cart. which passed over his shoulder and chest. He was perfectly sober at the time. He received very severe injury on the head and face, and died yesterday morning. Verdict--" Accidental Death." Last night an inquest was held at the Chequers, Tothill street, Westminster, OR the body of James Finn, aged 35, who met his death from falling of a scaffold at the Equi table Gas Works. The deceased and others were employed on the 11th inst. in making a railroad for the coals, when one of the carpenters told deceased to screw up the bolt at the end of some scaffolding, which he was doing, when all of a sudden the screw slipped and he fell above sixty feet backwards on some planks and was dreadfully injured. He was quite sober, no person was to blame. Verdict—" Accidental Death." Yesterday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, a bricklayer named Nicholas Lane, in the employ of Messrs. Cubitt and Co., builders, while at work on a scaffold in Hen_ sleigh-street, Gordon-square, overbalanc-d himself, and fell from the second story to the ground. He was taken up ap parently lifeless, and covered with blood, and, on being con veyed to the University College Hospital, he was found to have sustained a very severe and extensive fracture of the skull, a violent concussion of the brain, and a fracture of his left thigh bone. He is considered to be in a hopeless condi tion. The unfortunate man is 38 years of age, and has a wife and family. . A shock of an earthquake was felt at Coblentz on the 14th instant, but was so short in its duration, that the direction in which it proceeded could not be ascertained. EAST INDIA SHIPPING• A,rival. —The Australia, B,rrester, from Manilla, in th e Downs, saileir May 7. Anger, June, St. Helena, Aug. 21. Arrivals at Hobart Town.—The Abercrombie, Butcher, June 16, from the Mauritius; Sir John Frankland, Dawson, and Brazil Packet, Burchell, from New Zealand; Drum' more, Mylne, June 26, from Calcutta ; Eudora, Addisout from Calcutta. Departure from Hobart Town.—The Isabella, Samps°l4 June 23, for Port Philip. Arrival at Launc e ston ( Van Diemen's Land). --The 80, lina, Waddell, in June, from London. Arrivals at Sydney (N! w South Wales The Williattl, Thom, July 2, from Launceston; Nereus (4 Sydney) , June 6, from the Sperm Fi7herv. Departure from Sydney.—The Jess, Clayton, May 27, f o r Ne., Ze a l an d. Th e Ki nnear, M a ll ar d, wou ld sail f; cm 51 ney about the 30th of July, for London. SHIPS SPOKE N WITII.-ThC elvdeSdale, al vies, from LiVefr poOl to 13 ,, mbay, Sept. 7, lat. 7, N., long. 16. W. ; the Ma r l; Gilmore, from Liverpool to the Mauritius. Sept. 8, with I T of topmasts; the J o h n , Whelan', from Llanelly to Mee"ti' July 16, lat. 34, E. Th e f o ll ow i n g w e re spoken by the Ads' ttalian (whaler), Rhode s , arr i ve d a t S v d ne y : —Nov. 28, the, Nantucket, of Nantucket, five months out, 60 barrels; a e ,-. l°- day, the Ann, of London, Ball, 650 barrels. reported the uf; lumhus, eighteen months out, 350 barrels ; Dec. 28, te Parker, Austin, thirty months out, 1,650 barrels: same de Y: the Rambler, of Nantucket, seven months out, 1,750 barrel; also the Hope, of London, 600 barrels, forty months out; • 3. the Warren, of Warren. seven months out, five right whal:;sof; Feb. 10, the American ship Montana, six months ou t . i• barrels of black oil ; March 20, the Governor Halkett,..:, Sydney, eight months out, 500 barrels. April 1 5 , the 0711:0 bay, Evans, nine weeks from Sydney, clean ; same day' 50 0 American ship Umas, Clarkson, thirty-two months ou t, I, , s barrels; A.:rd 29, the Jane, Barber, out ten months sate halt, from Sydney, 480 barrels; May 9, the Clarkstonet ° month, 110 barrels. THE MARKETS. RKETS DURING THE WE: COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE Wr.,..K.;;., IIN heat. Barley. I oat,. is ,t,.. I"s% /e. Per Quarter. Is.to s. s. s. s. to s. s. to A IL ..., Blandford —...... 59 74 28 30 23 21 42 48 .„---up B`l arigg .rG 74 24 23 24 3! ,42 4+ .',. .., Cambridge--.......... . 75 31 25 1 4o 4l Chard ~—....—........... ,56 74 5.6 32 18 22 32 40 no , Huntingd0n.,,..,,,.,, 56 70 34 38 24 29 38 42 ....• Long 5utt0n..,—....158 78 16 20 SO 34 -- ..••• Louth ... as 68 26 32 20 24 35 42 ~.; 84 ynn . i 56 67 22 31 16 20 :SO 32 ja 51 Newark ....................... 62 72 24 31 19 28 131 43 -• ...• Nottingham --...... 64 79 28 31 19 28 35 42 -- .... Peterborough —...... 159 72 35 42 22 29 ,38 49 '''- •••• Plymouth --......—.. 158 70 30 34 20 23 t - •••' Pontefract.......—... 1 67 43 27 1 43 Sleaforil ........... ~.... 165 70 36 38 22 28 41 43 -- •••• Uppingham ....... 63 74 24 30 18 28 ,32 44 -"' .0. Wisbech ........................ 1I 63 72 20 30 32 ""... DEVIZES CORN MARKET.—Oct. 25 s. S. Per Sack. s 4. s. d. Per Quarter. s. d. 66 0 First Wheat 3'4 .. to 44 0 Barley 2g oto .. 0 Second 34 0 36 0 Oats 22 0 t7i 0 Third 1362 Sacks of Wheat sold] 35 0 Flour (per bag) 0 ,.. ° at the average of Bread (per ga11.)... 1 6 Wheat, Norfolk anEd LEEDS fIbCORN MARKET.— Oct. 23 623. to , s'io 1 Stilk, 601 b. .--- York. and Lincoln. 601 b. 543. to 68'' I,' Barley, Norfolk and Suilblk 0 Yorkshire and Lincolnshire os. ... Grinding Beans 63lb. 28, Oats, Potatoe 279. to tone -Mealing, For. Ild. toll 4d Eng. 121. to 131. Per!,(o. Shelling 3ls. to 324. Pe. jot. Rapeseed, English, 311. to 351 . _ Foreign, 341 to 261. Per eras .. It is with much pleasure we state that our vel l •, a rlf and highly-esteemed Lord-Lieutenant, Earl Somers , in n. s es recovered from the severe attack of illness he recently elr rienced. —Hereford Journal. hall The equinoctials are come at last ; h as ithe thirty hours of heavy rain. Better late than never; it ars first regular rain since May. The wells and water tu"sirso well filled, and the washerwomen are in a good humour. a no . fire in New Jersey will be put out, but the buckwheat an r tatoes are destroyed. —American Paper. A fjciir An inquest was held on Wednesday,at the we sex Hospital, on the body of Thomas Row a musical his ment maker, who cut his throat with an old knife use of trade. The deceased had been 16 years in the ernr)ol Messrs. Tomkisson, the pianoforte manufacturers , bu n t riod been discharged about three months ago, since whi ch 'ls he had been very low spirited. He had plenty of °. his own account. Verdict—Temporary Insanity. On Tuesday morning, between six and seven , b - iuring named Philip Bickliff, was proceeding across °Pi r i e Islington. fields, near the Liverpool-road, when he disel le t hee a small rush hand-basket bound round with a piece of %lola line. On opening it he found the body of a new-born l',00; child, wrapped in a very old and dirty piece of printed e°' ar t the knees of the infant had been bent up over the lower P o s a of the abdomen with brutal. violence, to compress itb trea.. small a space as possible. No professional aid had ee r ; a re dered at the time of birth, and all appearances of the Wei indicative of the child having been born alve. Fairs are growing out of fashion. i The long: esta' blisbed one held on Devizes-green from time imme lo , rl nils the 20th of October, was the smallest ever reeelleeteang a season. About on much h u t t h e2O game, oo o termssh eep a were sat w p e e y n h n i A an t d on c: p s ,;_ r l e ad an d the i F u e p rr ri is ce. of the sale was remarkably dull, but rallied about noo The finestni. remaining lots were swept away without any maternal &CIO gfo r p d e , n a o n f d la f m et t c )s he e d xli 2 i 9 bi s t . ed ea b e e h l . os stock a • very indifferent show and flat sale. Of horses sear". cely a good hack, or anything else of value. Some jumpr' just imported from the Emerald Isle amused the publi%6: some hurdles expressly pitched for the exhibition, and didt.b„! price bid 1 0 01 , work cleverly. Thirty guineas was the highest Of hornea any of them. In the pleasure fair never was seen so ineef r r o ., ged t display. No menagerie, no fire-eaters, nor equestrian K , : for mance. The lamps burnt blue and dimly again last nig,Dt rker a brief space, then became extinct, and left the Green .1 0 0 green than ever. The rapid improvements in comm with the throughout the country, and facilities of intercourse vi L l t . p d of metropolis, will obviously very soon put an end to this 1 • 1 4 0, barter, to the great discomfiture of thieves, pickpocs. gipsies, &c. COS: DETERMINED SUICIDE BY A POLICE dyof irrAnus,—About seven o'clock yesterday morning the:" P e n- Police Constable Collison, C 96, was found in the the n A tine river. Deceased had not been in the force more .oroas, few months, and had resumed his duty, after a short I c onsta ble on Monday. He was last seen alive by a brother eollsduty, at eight o'clock on Wednesday night, and was then day-dateon but was not present at the usual inspection of the th constables at nine. He was found in full uniformsni 1 110 exception of his stock, which was on the bank. fc :.soge l l footmarks there can be little doubt that he had at firs t 'lot& a spot too shallow to effect his purpose, and had then ° e t too another. He had been in a desponding ' state for the I" or three days _ Or ------ GREAT ADVANTAGE TO LARGE CONSUIIIOS TEA. 0 14 title ° o TEAS at WHOLESALE PRICES, in clan ~es" f - less than one pound, in tin cases of 61bs. net, or stna - 121bs. and upwards. t his e dge rs To afford every facility t o la r ge cons umer s, to whom c o ffee" tisement is addressed, not less than one pound of Tex o ,r it oft" made at this establi s h men t, as th e sma ll p ro fit s will not at° P ir usual division of quan t i ti es ma d e by re t a il h ous es. gTO G. T. MANSELL an d CO., WHOLESAI• DEALERS, 2, Bucklersbury, Cheapside. hill ' Cor p- fc ! T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, Ste 47 ' Pu wi T London ( Seven Doors from Graccch urch-stret ), that he offers SILVER WATCHES, on the celebrated r- h a Ot t o ,. LEVER CONSTRUCTION (the most accurate on wi t ' c i a testle, can be made), for SIX GUINEAS EACH, with tlie,, be..„ informs . o t h A e Or i eb prorements, i. e. the detached escapement, jewelled incrp3"sintsP capped, hand to mark the seconds, hard enamelled dial, elt a A , pa-b's ing power to continue going while winding up. N.B.—lf in Hunting Cases, 10s. 6d. extra.- ---°° Watches purchased in exchange. --- --- - -t of __ BIRTHS. Yin e°4 On the 22d inst., at Broadstairs, Mrs. Georg e AO' Dartmouth -street, estminster, of a son. f Sr On the 23d inst., W in Berkeley-square, the Hon. IsAr'' Qo o, of a son. Vir• On the 23d inst., at Woolwich, the lady of the R e/ * r( A Ali cire terman, of a son. of On the 23d inst., at Streatham-common, the le , Y i. w e r Hamilton, Esq., of a son. o On the 23d inst., the lady of Henry Dalzell,E sq'' ill' of mouth-steet, Portland-place. of a so. On the r 24th inst., at Feltham-hill, n Middlesex, the l a i d ! 0 0 ' liam Sheffield, Esq., late of th e Madras Civil Servic e ' ° M4RRIi,I). On the 23d i ns t., a t B ec k en h am Ch urc h, Kent, 11° ,, b i ert ee° ' 1 : 1;4 1. : , est son of Jacob G eorge Wrench, Esq., of Grov e -ht ford, " well, Surrey, to M ar i a , eldest daughter of Edward Le vr eO ll of Eden Park. Beckenham. William elO t On the 23d i .st., at Dillhorn Staffordshire, Trinder, of' John-street, Bedford:row, solicitor,,,to So c,,ei, daughter of the late George Hubbard, 'Esq. of t ' headie. il L — g ly: At Ealing Church, on the 23d inst. J. B'ondfield = i r e :f, Ee of Stoke. Somersetshire, to Eleanor inst., WYl lie :' e ,,.. 400' ter of William Wyllie, Esq., of Castlebar Park, Eell° ' /1/id u risfr On the 23d inst.. at St. Leonard's Church. Ho t Lower =,:soi... Capel Berrow, eldest son of John Berger. Esq.' e. c f ~'' of ton, to Cordelia, fourth daught er o f H en ry Dobbs, '-' s '' e tt 13 11 wood, Middlesex. 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Arthu r On the 21st inst ,in Howe-street, Edinburgh, Do. Ans tei, phant Anstey, aged . 19, third son of the Hon. Thomas i"'ea,,siatiire Anstey Barton, Van Diemen's Land, Member of the ' ° ouncil of that island. ma jesty' s C On the 24th inst., George Downs , E s q ., one of he r Pages. • OUN London : Printed and Published by M MI D° ix sh , c attig 112, Strand, at The Sun Qffiee, No. 112, StranS i s of Middlevaz—Friday, October 26, 1881!, A